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Introduction

When I first started working with Visual C++ and the Microsoft XML Core
Services (MSXML), I found the going a bit rough. Most of the books and examples
that I found seemed to be geared toward using MSXML from Visual Basic. The few
C++ examples (including those in the MSXML SDK) were coded in a variety of
styles and didn't concisely cover the main things I needed to know to
enable a legacy application to produce or consume XML. I'm happy to report
that the situation has improved a bit since then. And Visual Studio .NET offers
a different Document Object Model (DOM) implementation that turns even MSXML
into legacy technology. However, I think that there are probably quite a few C++
developers haven't made the jump to .NET and might benefit from a basic but
comprehensive introduction to using MSXML with C++.

In this article, I'll cover the essential things you need to know about
how to use the MSXML DOM implementation from C++. We'll start with DOM and
MSXML/C++ basics, and then review two very simple programs that consume and
produce XML documents. We'll conclude with a brief discussion of more
advanced topics.